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That can't be the GB team cos the bikes haven't got stabilisers on them !

Didn't Andy Smith ride under a Polish licence for a while ?

I thought his best line was when Pearson asked him if he'd ever had a row with Nikki P at Eastbourne and he replied "No, but I can go and start one if you like, no problem..."

So I did, that's cos you posted it while I was typing mine so I didn't see it !

Are you serious ? the track at Wroclaw is tailor made for a rider like Steady.

Ex-Comets Lou Sansom (mini-Mauger) and Taffy Owen (a real character).

Very sad news. Sincere condolences to Alan's family. I remember watching Alan ride for the Comets in the mid 70's (around 74/75 I think), and he was always entertaining to watch and a real character.

On the face of it, the GP is not generating much income for the riders involved - however, I wonder how much extra sponsorship they receive from being involved ?

You could also apply that to Mikael Max, his GP performances are nowhere near the standard of his EL racing.

My guess is that as well as cheat and liar, we can also add coward to the list of descriptions.....

SWEDEN (Red) Mikael Max Tony Rickardsson Antonio Lindback Andreas Jonsson Peter Karlsson POLAND (Blue) Krzysztof Kasprzak Jaroslaw Hampel Tomasz Gollob Janiusz Kolodziej Marcin Rempala DENMARK (White) Hans Andersen Nicki Pedersen Kenneth Bjerre Niels-Christian Iversen Bjarne Pedersen TEAM GB (Yellow) David Norris Lee Richardson Mark Loram Scott Nicholls Gary Havelock

Spot on mate. In my view when there is a race off with 2 teams qualifying, if they are going to allow jokers then it should be when you are 6 points behind the 2nd placed team not the leading team (i.e. 6 points from a qualification place).

Joe certainly did his bit as did the rest of the lads, it was a superb team effort all round. By the way, have you ever, and I mean ever, seen Mark Loram gate better than he did last night ?

I've e:mailed both of you my GP programme in Excel format.

It's been confirmed that Simon Stead will be riding in saturday's GP in Copenhagen. Simon will be riding in Heat 4 with Bjarne P, Max and Laukkanen. Another Brit for us to cheer and a remarkable comeback for Simon following his bad injury earlier this season. Lets hope he does himself proud.

Confirmed - Simon Stead is riding in Copenhagen and goes in Heat 4.

I think Havvy hit the nail on the head when he was talking about Lee on the fanzone commentary. He said he had looked at Lee in the past and wondered if he was mentally strong enough and had enough desire to take him to the heights his talent deserved. He went on to say that he's seen a change in Lee this year and that he seems to be more focused and determined, which is paying big dividends. Hopefully Lee can progress from this, his confidence must now be sky high, and now he's proved to himself that he can mix it with the best there's no reason why he shouldn't do it consistently.

Holta's not riding. Holta has decided he will ride at cardiff according to his website www.holtaracing.com

We used countless taxis in Prague last year and never got ripped off once. The secret is to negotiate with them before you get in. Tell them where you want to go and they give you a price, say 500Kr, then you offer them about 300Kr and 9 times out of 10 they'll take you for that price. Worked every time for us !

There are plenty of cash machines in the city centre, all of them let you draw out cash using your Visa/Mastercard etc and if you've got one of the new Maestro cards you can use those too. Or you could just take travellers cheques 'cos there's plenty of Bureau de Change places in the city.

Yeah, but the grading system doesn't apply to PL so what happens there ? All it says is "the team's No. 1 rider" - now that could mean the guy who wears the No. 1 race jacket, it could mean your highest average at the start of the season, your highest average at that time etc etc etc Clarification needed !

The wording of the new rule is confusing. Does it mean you can only have a guest when the rider named at No.1 in your team line-up is out - or does it mean your No. 1 in terms of your rider with the highest average ?

Personally I think it'll come down to who keeps their nerve best, and for me that would be Nicki as I think Jason has a tendency to get a bit emotional and let things affect him. I hope not though, cos I think it'd be a travesty if Crumpy doesn't win a world title and he'll never have a better chance than this. He doesn't want to end up another Gollob, but can he handle the pressure ?

Well if it wasn't Steve or jgl then it must be me who is the numpty ? I don't know, you try to help someone and get emotionally scarred for your trouble :-(

And she's apparently got a plentiful stock of Budvar, which makes her more than ok in my opinion